Whoops! We inadvertantly left out the answers to the Screen Test in today’s Preview section. Here they are: 1. John Hurt 2. John Cassavetes 3. “The Brood” 4. Julianne Moore 5. “Hannah and Her Sisters” 6. John Hughes 7. He pushes her off a building. 8. Robert Wagner (1956) and Matt Dillon (1991). 9. Ira […]
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John Sayles’ juke-joint drama “Honeydripper” will get a gala screening in the writer-director’s hometown on Friday, Jan. 18. The film, starring a characteristically rich Sayles ensemble that includes Danny Glover, Keb Mo, Mary Steenburgen and Charles S. Dutton, is the story of a roadhouse owner (Glover) who pins his fading hopes on an electric guitar prodigy […]
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Here’s the completely nuts quantity of movies slated to open on Friday and Tuesday, with snippy comments: OPENING FRIDAY ATONEMENT. Ian McEwan’s novel about the aftermath of a young girl’s lie comes to the screen. Keira Knightly and James McAvoy star. 130 minutes. (R for disturbing war images, language and some sexuality.) http://www.atonementthemovie.co.uk/site/site.html
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The Clark Art Institute is celebrating its recently acquired collection of British lanscape painting with a film series featuring gorgeous images of the English landscape. Here’s the press release:
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A reader, perhaps facetiously, commented below that Larry Wachowski’s long-rumored sex change means it’s now the Wachowski Siblings — or perhaps just the Wachowskis, eh? I’m not quite sure how far down this, er, road I want to go, but by all recent reports I can find in a five-minute Web search (folks, it’s the […]
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The preview for the Wachowski Brothers’ upcoming “Speed Racer” is the damndest thing to look at — perhaps the best trailer for a movie that by all reasonable expectations should suck since Sylvester Stallone’s “Cliffhanger.” Remember how good that preview looked, like “Raiders of the Lost Ark” directed by Nietzsche? Remember how lousy the movie was? […]
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Here’s Mark McGuire’s super-jumbo online edition of his “Christmas Story” quiz. Find the answers here; feel free to post your own questions about this film or any other holiday staple in the comments below. If we achieve critical mass, we’ll run another Christmas quiz before the happy day: (Warning: Some of these questions are ridiculously […]
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The next time I’m looking around for a decent Catalan sparkling wine, I’m definitely going to pony up for the Freixenete. Martin Scorsese’s new long-form commercial for this high-end bubbly is a delight. Thanks to Roger Ebert for referencing it in a recent Answer Man column. Framed as Scorsese’s attempt to re-create a few unearthed pages […]
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